China is still headed for a hard landing

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Chin’s property shakeout continues at full throttle. The developer’s funding crisis is roaring along. Vulture funds that have prospered with shorts and bottom-feeding longs no longer know where to look:

Even as the authorities step up liquidity support to stem an economic slowdown, last year’s top-ranked managers in China are turning more cautious with little to suggest an imminent rebound.

Jiuying Asset is lowering its risk appetite toward debts linked to local government financial vehicles and diversifying its portfolio, fearing that defaults may finally happen as pressures on the financing vehicles mount.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.